American Artisans: Crafting Society Identity, 1750-1850

by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Roch

Book Overview

Given the fundamental changes that transformed American society in the years between Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship in a printer's shop and mid-19th-century efforts to organize labouring men and women, no social group offers a more interesting spectacle than skilled tradesmen or artisans. They came from various ethnic backgrounds (some worked in slavery), took their religion and politics seriously, lived mostly in cities but also in the countryside,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801850304
• ISBN13: 9780801850301
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"